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2019 Jul 12, 8:34am
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Remember when they said they would stop apprehending fare evaders?
If I lived there, I would have stopped paying fare as well. I would ran a campaign to implored my fellow travelers to not pay the fare either.
There's can't be two set of rules.
They lost me at Broken Windows theory, a darling of law enforcement and conservative thinkers. Time and again it has been shown that it's not the strict enforcement of petty laws that underlies the improvements proponents claim, but increased community involvement and inclusion.
Glad they are enforcing fares, it's a great way to keep the riff-raff level down.
They lost me at Broken Windows theory, a darling of law enforcement and conservative thinkers. Time and again it has been shown that it's not the strict enforcement of petty laws that underlies the improvements proponents claim, but increased community involvement and inclusion.
it's not the strict enforcement of petty laws that underlies the improvements proponents claim, but increased community involvement and inclusion.
I don't understand how "involvement" and "inclusion" would achieve the same goal. How exactly does this fluff work?
As a method of governing entire neighborhoods and cities, Broken Windows has been proven to boost measurable short term metrics like arrest and code enforcement numbers, but at a terrible cost of worsening individual investment and connection within the community, thus worsening the underlying causes of lawbreaking both petty and major.
What actually works is incentivizing and strengthening community ties, making the local residents increasingly want to take care of things themselves, as opposed to the us-versus-them
Wrong! NY City crime rates over all dropped drastically.
If I lived there, I would have stopped paying fare as well. I would ran a campaign to implored my fellow travelers to not pay the fare either.
There's can't be two set of rules.